Project Gutenberg's Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West, by Samuel StricklandThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)Author: Samuel StricklandRelease Date: March 3, 2005 [EBook #15245]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS IN CANADA WEST ***Produced by E.D. (Tedd) BrienTWENTY-SEVEN YEARSINCANADA WEST;THE EXPERIENCE OF AN EARLY SETTLER.BY MAJOR STRICKLAND, C.M.EDITED BY AGNES STRICKLAND,Author of "The Queens of England,", etc.And when those toils rewarding, Broad lands at length they'll claim,They'll call the new possession, By some familiar name.Agnes Strickland. — Historic Scenes.IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. I.LONDON:RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.1853.=================LONDON:Printed by Samuel Bentley & Co.Bangor House, Shoe Lane.=================PREFACE.No one can give an adequate view of the general life of a colonist, unless he has been one himself. Unless he hasexperienced all the various gradations of colonial existence, from that of the pioneer in the backwoods and the inhabitantof a shanty, up to the epoch of his career, when he becomes the owner, by his own exertions, ...
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